Tanner Elem School

Tanner Elem School is one of the cozy K-5 schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 272 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Tanner Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that teaches 324,396 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Tanner Elem School records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Tanner Elem School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Tanner Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tanner Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.7%, the actual is 11.1%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Tanner Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tanner Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 272 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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